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Welcome and happy birthday !!!! Any chance a salt tank or tanks is in the future?
Man just reading through the thread and this bro is in a pickle. Sorry bro for what the lfs has done. If you can find one lfs with one employee that...
+1 bigger stand and bigger in sump skimmer. mines a extreme 200 on 115g volume with 8x return turnover and two sicce 1600gph power heads in 75g DT
Maybe your not dosing enough, find your daily usage, use brs calculator to find the dosing amount to increase to desired level, then add the amount...
I use the rox 0.8 in mine and change both the gfo and carbon every 2-3 weeks. I found there instructional videos very helpfull in my choice of what...
wait 24 hrs and its best to test the same time ea day, mag is somewhat slow to make a change in your water so add according to directions but...
Any reason I can't add dry baking soda mixed w/di followed by enough recipe#1 to help keep the ph stable not going over .5 meq in 24hr, running lime...
I use salifert, it will go from purple to purple blue to blue. In most cases only one drop is the difference between the colors changing. Just waste...
I have the ext 200 with psk1000 pump, if your talking about the water flow noise I bought a elbow and returned it into the sump below the 9" water...
try a salifert test kit and see if it gives you the same readings as the seachem kit. not to knock the seachem kits but i got completely different...
Dt is 75g total volume is 115g, I agree and I only added 1 tbls vinager to help get the ph going back down after a 20g wc, i also dont like...
aqua lifter, its not presipping
system is 6 months old and has been stable. System was running at 3.2 kh 410 cal 1380 mag 8.2 ph stock list in dt: 1 coral beauty 1 six line 1...
Nope, you don't have to run your lights while cycling your tank, bacteria will grow without light. Fish don't need light either, it's when and if you...
Cutting your light cycle down will help, with nothing in there right now you dont have to run the lights at all.
The diatoms will run there coarse and go away about as fast as they showed up once all silicates are gone. There are things to you can do to help...
How old is the tank? Diatoms are usually the first and there will be more algea to come. Check the phosphates, if it gets to high you can run a phos...
Led's need to be mounted to a heat sink which pulls the heat away from the light emitting diod. They are wired in a series and then matched to a...
I have the extreme 200 with the gate valve and sits in 9.5" of water. make sue the output of the skimmer is not blocked in any way, start shallow at...
yes live rock will seed dry rock over time, i would try to make this next time for rock your last for a while anyway. You always run the chance of...
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